Pune, August 16, 2018: Sarvatra Technologies, India’s leading end-to-end payments and banking solutions provider, announced that they have successfully on-boarded ‘Sevalia Urban Co-operative Bank’ as 450th co-operative bank on National Financial Switch (NFS). With this addition, the company has enabled as many co-operative banks on digital payment platform by making them interoperable with large banks. Contributing to the Digital India story, Sarvatra Technologies has played a very vital role in digitizing small co-operative banks across India. It has enabled lakhs of semi urban and rural customers to the digital banking world. Sarvatra aims to add another 50 plus co-operative banks by FY 2019.

In continuation to their digital payment enabling story for India, Sarvatra has provided digital payment platform from the smallest cooperative banks to the largest lenders in India like ICICI Bank, IDBI Bank and new generation clients like Paytm Payments Bank, Equitas Small Finance Bank etc.

Mr. Dilip Asbe, MD & CEO, National Payments Corporation of India said, “Sarvatra started with NFS, providing RuPay Debit and Kissan Credit Cards issuance and enabling transactions on ATMs, POS and eCommerce. They are bringing sub-member banks on other NPCI platforms like IMPS, UPI, AePS and Bharat BillPay. Sarvatra not only on boards UCBs but also SCBs and DCCBs which is helping in financial inclusion.”

Speaking about the development, Mr. Mandar Agashe, Founder & Vice Chairman, Sarvatra Technologies said, “Sarvatra has done a pioneering role in bringing latest digital payment technologies to India’s ‘underbanked’ population. We defined financial inclusion as providing all payment facilities to a customer of a bank in remotest location of India which an urban customer of a modern bank will get in a metro city like Mumbai. In our journey, we had to handhold smaller cooperative banks in every aspect of digitization. For large banks like ICICI Bank and Paytm we ensured that we provided top quality payment switches like UPI and IMPS which scaled from few thousand transactions to few lakh transactions per day effortlessly within few weeks.”

“Co-operative bank customers are increasingly relying on digital payment services. From a relatively small amount transacted earlier, the transaction value on Sarvatra platform has grown ten-fold in the past five years. In 2018, the transaction value is set to touch Rs. 40, 000 crore and is expected to continue growing exponentially over next few year.” he further added.

Co-operative banks earlier had poor network connectivity across branches and were disconnected with other large banking fraternity. Sarvatra Technologies provided SaaS based technology infrastructure for banks to centralize its system and to participate in the national payments network. Entire management of data centers and technological infrastructure has led to reduced operating cost for them. Company has on boarded banks across India covering 23 states and 03 union territories. Sarvatra works very closely with its sponsor banks – HDFC Bank, ICICI Bank, Axis Bank and Yes Bank. The company holds leadership position in providing technology for UPI transactions in India and manages more than 50% of the total transaction that is generated on UPI nationally.

Sarvatra is present in Maharashtra, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Kerala, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Punjab etc. The company has also reached the north eastern states of India and union territories like Andaman & Nicobar Islands. In 8 years, Sarvatra went from offering digital solutions to two banks to 450+ banks and from a single payments platform to five different payment platform, viz. EFT (ATM, POS, E-Com), IMPS, Bharat Bill Payment System, UPI, AEPS. Sarvatra’s platforms in ICICI Bank and Equitas bank have won NPCI award for best performance in their respective categories this year.

Sarvatra Technologies is a leading end-to-end payments and banking solutions provider in India, offering RuPay Debit cards, ATM, POS, ECOM, Micro ATM, IMPS, AEPS, UPI, BBPS, and POS-based Branch Servicing solutions. It holds leadership position in providing technology for UPI transactions in India and manages a major portion of the total transaction volume that is generated on UPI and IMPS nationally. The first ASP to enable sub-member banks on RuPay ATM, E-com, VAS, and IMPS, it services 450+ banks across 23 states and 3 union territories in India. Key enterprise clientele of the company includes ICICI Bank, Paytm Payments Bank, Equitas Small Finance Bank, etc.

About NFS:

NFS was taken over by NPCI from Institute for Development and Research in Banking Technology (IDRBT) on December 14, 2009. Over the span of few years, NFS ATM network has grown many folds and is now the leading multilateral ATM network in the country. NFS has established a strong and sustainable operational model with in-house capabilities and today can be compared at par with other major and well-established switch networks. The operational functions and services are at par with most of the global ATM networks.

I am happy with the pace of work (in developing the UPI solution for ICICI Bank). It is also very encouraging the way you are tracking the progress. I am more confident that we can meet the deadline successfully.